Judith Shatin
Judith Shatin (* 1949 ) is an American composer and music teacher.
Life
Shatin studied at Douglass College , the Juilliard School of Music and Princeton University . She is a professor at the University of Virginia and director of the Virginia Center for Computer Music, which she founded in 1987 . She was a board member of the International Alliance for Women in Music , the League of Composers / ISCM and the American Composers Alliance and 1989-1993 President of the American Women Composers, Inc .
As a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation , Sharin had study visits to Germany, France and Israel. She has received four National Endowment for the Arts composition grants . She has received awards from the American Music Center , Meet the Composer , Met-Life Creative Connections , New Jersey State Arts Council, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and has received commissions from the Barcelona New Music Ensemble , the Dutch Hexagon Ensemble , the Kronos Quartet , the Library of Congress and the National Symphony Orchestra's Hechinger Commission .
Shatin composed chamber music, choral works, ballet and electro-acoustic music, created music installations, multimedia and orchestral works. Her works were performed at festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival , the BAM Next Wave , the Grand Teton Festival the Moscow Autumn listed. In 2008 she composed Tower of the Eight Winds for violin and piano for the Library of Congress . Commissioned by the Illinois Symphony Orchestra's Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra , the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra , Jefferson, In His Own Words for speaker and orchestra, premiered in 2010.
Works
- Assembly Line # 1 for oboe
- Bagatelle for piano
- Baruch HaBa for male voice
- Carreno for piano and mezzo-soprano
- Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi for piano
- Entreat Me Not To Leave Thee for solo voice
- Fantasy on St. Cecilia for piano
- Fasting Heart for flute
- L'etude du Coeur for viola
- Meridians for clarinet
- Penelope's Dream for cello
- Postlude for organ
- Round 3 for trombone
- Ruth for soprano
- Scirocco for piano
- Singing Still for flute
- Sursum Corda for cello
- Widdershins for piano
- 1492 for amplified piano and percussion
- Akhmatova Songs for (mezzo) soprano and chamber ensemble or piano
- Clave for flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion
- Doxa for viola and piano
- Dreamtigers for flute and guitar
- Fantasía Sobre El Flamenco for brass
- Fledermaus Fantasy for violin and piano
- Gabriel's Wing for flute and piano
- Gazebo Music for flute and cello
- Glyph for viola, string quartet and piano or chamber orchestra
- Hearing the Call for two trumpets and two drums
- Houdini, Memories of a Conjurer for cello, piano, percussion and electronic playback
- Icarus for violin and piano
- Ignoto Numine for piano trio
- Ki Koleich Arev for soprano, flute and piano
- Lost Angels for trumpet, bassoon and piano
- Marvelous Pursuits for vocal quartet and piano
- Monument in brass for wind quintet
- Ockeghem Variations for wind quintet and piano
- Quatrain for violin, viola, clarinet and bass clarinet
- Ruah for flute and piano
- Run for piano quartet
- Secret Ground for flute, clarinet, violin and cello
- Selah for women's quartet or choir
- Sister Thou Wast Mild and Lovely for soprano and viola
- Spin for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola and cello
- Study in Black for flute and percussion
- Sweet Harmony for soprano and piano
- Teruah for Shofar, three horns, two trumpets, two trombones and timpani
- The Janus Quartet , string quartet
- Three Summers Heat - Chamber for soprano, flute, viola and harp
- Time To Burn for oboe and two percussionists
- Tower of the Eight Winds for violin and piano
- View From Mt. Nebo
- Wedding Song for soprano and English horn, alto flute, clarinet or viola
- Werther for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
- When the Moon of Wildflowers if Full for flute and cello
- Wind songs for wind quintet
- Ark , violin concerto
- Aura for orchestra
- Jefferson, In His Own Words for narrator and chamber orchestra
- Piping the Earth
- Ruah , flute concert
- Singing the Blue Ridge for mezzo-soprano, baritone, orchestra and electronics
- Stringing the Bow for string orchestra
- The Passion of St. Cecilia for orchestra
- Cherry Blossom and a Wrapped Thing; After Hokusai for amplified clarinet and electronics
- Civil War Memories for Electronics
- Elijah's Chariot for string quartet and electronics
- For The Birds for amplified cello and electronics
- Mica rings for electronics
- Grito del Corazón for chamber ensemble, electronics and video
- Hosech Al P'ney HaTehom for electronics
- House music for electronics
- Kairos for flute and electronics
- Penelope's Song for cello or soprano saxophone or violin or viola and electronics
- Sea of Reeds for amplified clarinet and effects processor
- Spring Tides for amplified flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and interactive electronics
- Three Summers Heat for (mezzo) soprano and electronics
- Follies and Fancies , chamber opera
Web links
- Judith Shatin's homepage
- Judith Shatin on Vox Novus
- Judith Shatin on the Virginia University website
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shatin, Judith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |